Cable Failure Disrupts Power In Allentown Police

April 20, 1986|The Morning Call

About 2,500 Allentown customers were without electricity for a short period yesterday morning when a 12,000-volt underground cable coming out of Pennsylvania Power & Light Co.'s Allentown substation at Front and Hamilton streets failed.

Bert Daday, company spokesman, said the failure was reported at 9:10 a.m. Power was restored to 1,073 by 10 a.m. and to the remainder by 11:31.

The general area affected was ineast Allentown and in the vicinity of Front and Hamilton streets.

Daday said last night the company had not determined what caused the cable to fail.